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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Chapter 4. Evolutionary Influences. Taste To what extend do you agree with the notion that taste is largely a function of evolutionary forces? What would be a competing explanation?

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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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  1. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Chapter 4

  2. Evolutionary Influences • Taste • To what extend do you agree with the notion that taste is largely a function of evolutionary forces? • What would be a competing explanation? • Assuming some degree of validity of evolutionary influence on our taste, how has our tastes developed from the hunter-gatherer phase of humanity NOT been beneficial to modern man?

  3. Evolutionary Forces • Psychology • To what extent do you think that evolutionary forces have influences have shaped our capacity to think and influenced what thoughts we have? • How can our thoughts be survival mechanisms? • Blank Slate Myth • Intentions • Faces • Babbling • Over the Shoulder • Social Reasoning • Card Test

  4. Biological Determinism Human free Will Theistic Intervention

  5. Instincts • Definition • Instinct Blindness • Historical Perspective • Distinguishing from learned behavior • P. 80 = list of instincts • How has your perception of beauty changes with this chapter’s examination of physical beauty? • “Form reflects Function” • To what extent does this assertion agree with our class discussion on beauty? • To what extent have you experienced the “glimpse effect?” • Good from far; far from good. • Sniffing genetic diversity

  6. Reality • Electromagnetic Energy Waves • Humans & Control of Evolution (Ted Talk) • The reality we know • Red? • What confines our perception of reality? • Synethesia

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